Vittorio Cipolla and Fabrizio Oliviero, researchers at the University of Pisa, and Michele Franchi from Pitom, have presented the topic "Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Airplane Through a Light Simulator", as a research result of the HYPSTAIR project at the Conference of the Italian Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics – AIDAA 2015.

The HYPSTAIR project has received fundings from the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme and concerns the design of components of a serial hybrid propulsion system for small aircraft. Pitom has operated as subcontractor of the University of Pisa, supporting the design and implementation of the aircraft dynamic simulator, the Human Machine Interface, and the algorithms for residual energy estimation.

The Conference was organized in cooperation with Aerospace & Defense Meetings Torino (A&DM) and Additive Manufacturing (AM) Meetings in Torino on 17-19 November 2015. A&DM is the only international business convention for the aerospace and defence industry organized in Italy, based on a program of pre-arranged meetings. AM Meetings focus on additive manufacturing technology and production.